Columnist are just like News Editors in that they have their own dedicated Column they write about and can edit. Columns are Syndicated and can be subscribed to by anyone on the web. We would like Columns such as: lawn and gardening, Travel, Financial advice and investing, Farming, Politics, Family living, Hunting, Fishing, and more.

We can create a Column for any member of this site who expresses an interest in a subject matter and who can write creative and useful content about the topic on a regular basis. Columns are MEANT to be very targeted to a specific area of interest and we will even go the extra Mile to build each columnist a very nice custom channel look and feel just for them.

Your Channel once setup for your articles can ONLY be edited by YOU. We can also setup sub channels within your channel IE: Fishing Channel for instance can have such as: Fishing/Videos, and or Fishing/Photos, etc etc.

In the event that you may wish to have someone else assist you with adding/managing content within your channel you should send us a PM Message stating that members username they use to login to this site and we can assign them co authoring rights at your channel.

Co Authors at YOUR channel can NOT EDIT or remove any content YOU may have added, and YOU can NOT edit/remove content the Co Author may have created within your channel. Content (postings) made within your channel can ONLY be further edited or removed by the original AUTHOR of that content (and or by us here as the main Admins of this site)..

Here is what we expect of any Columnist of their own channel:

• Keep your content Relevant to the channel topic
• As a channel owner you CAN do some light marketing for your business if you are a business owner, BUT; remember your channel is NOT MEANT to be all about your business but to provide information relevant to your topic and to provide valuable informative content to our sites readers
• Use the Proper areas of this site for Off Topic postings not related to your column!

We here at Fecn News have around some 60 other Domains/sites we personally own and operate. For Columnist who are doing an excellent job of publishing interesting, timely, and informative content within your channel, we will promote it for you within not only THIS SITE, but some of our other many domains and sites we manage.

We will also SHOW YOU HOW to market your channel on the web for potential Profits.

We have Classifieds, Business Links, Forums, Job Search menu, Jokes, Recipes menu section you are allowed to post off topic content not related to your Column. Use these other sections to post such non related Column content within as it applies.

If you need a New Category created in any of the other sections, Send us a PM Message with the request and be specific in the request please.

This is a fairly advanced level thing you may wish to do for those of you using our CMS version for your sites. Follow the directions below and you should be successful at getting it done properly.

Click here for our How to Popup on this section.

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Microsoft considers it a security risk by default to allow you the ability to Copy/Paste content from your Windows Clipboard into forms and such on the web. By Default you will get a Prompt when you try to copy/paste content such as Emails, Photos, Etc into a form on a web site.

IF you do a lot of work on line with creating Content you wish to copy paste between this site or that site, or even copying and pasting between documents/content within your own web site, this can be an annoyance!

The easy fix to STOP this popup screen is to simply CHANGE your Internet Explorer settings for this feature. Here is how to do so:

• 1) Go to the Tools menu at the top of your browser and select the Internet Options flyout

• 2) Select the Security tab and click on the Custom Level button near the bottom

• 3) Scroll on down near the bottom and you will see the Allow Programmatic clipboard access option

• 4) Simply select the Enable radial button as shown above and SAVE your changes!

Now whenever you do any copying pasting operations at this site or that site the annoying popup will be GONE!

Most any New PC ships with Microsoft's latest web browser which is currently version 8.0.6 as of December 10, 2009. Thing is since you are a computer owner yourself, you already know they can be great tools and a great PIA equally as well.

Seems every time you turn around SOMETHING on your computer needs updating. Some updates are freebies, some are not as you already know by now. Like our own government JUST when you get to know HOW to do something, IT CHANGES (requires updating).. That is the way of the world though so we may as well get used to CHANGE.

Anyway Windows Internet Explorer 8 is actually pretty good and has a few new features you may like over the older version 7. I updated my main machine to version 8 and so far so good. It kept all my bookmarks as they were and there was no problems with the installation at all.

One new feature in version 8 of significant importance to business web site owners is the new Explorer 'Web Slice Gallery'. What this does is automate RSS feeds you subscribed to and will keep YOUR feeds up to date automatically for you. RSS simply means Really Simple Syndication and IF your current business site does NOT automatically generate News feeds for you, your site and business WILL suffer as a result.

It really IS TIME to get up to speed with your web site because the browsers, search engines, social networks, and others ARE! Just like having to update your computer from time to time so it is also true for your web site IF your website is there to help you make money or serve an important need or service.

An older Web 1.0 standard type site (regular ole HTML site) is very quickly becoming a thing of the past as they can not support the new standards and interact with customers as the newer Web 2.0 type sites excel at getting done. This includes Automated RSS feeds whenever you add content to your site which as indicated above Microsoft obviously believes to be VERY IMPORTANT in any business site (or they would not have went to the trouble of adding it in version 8)

When we design a site for a client, we ONLY implement Web 2.0 type CMS systems which include automated RSS feeds when you add content, as well as automated Site Maps all the search engines also like to see. You see, You can update your computer and printers, monitors, software, etc ALL DAY LONG, but; at the end of the day it wont help your web site portion of your business one little bit unless you have an up to date with current standards web site and that WILL be a web 2.0 CMS style site your customers can interact with.

Just like the reason you GOT a computer for your business in the first place (IE: to save you time and money), same holds true for your web site. Our CMS solution also saves you time and money and is up to speed to do well for you in the search engines and make it easy for YOU or your team to manage.

Call us at: 386-329-1962 to get started
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This pertains SOLELY for clients we have setup the CMS system for their web site needs!

Your image manager is a very useful tool in your corner allowing you to upload and manage images for use at your site. It is basically an on line computer program and as such like any computer program it has Requirements and a couple of nuances you may need to know.

Currently the way that it works is that by default YOU as the owner WILL have full access and ability to create new Folders/upload and manage Images/photos/PDF files, etc within the image manager.

Members of your site CAN have WYSIWYG Editor access, however; that does NOT automatically give them the right to Upload anything to your site. To allow a particular member the ability to Upload Images to your site is a 4 step process YOU as the owner of your site would need to do in order to allow them such rights.

1. Step one is to bring up the image manager section of course.
2. Next you would need to navigate to the Members Folder and bring that folder up
3. Now you will need to create a new Folder in the Members folder. That new folder MUST be the exact same username as the members username you wish to allow upload rights for (it IS case sensitive).
4. Now you will ALSO need to add that member to the Filemanager Class rights. By default we will have set the amount allowed to 1 meg (1000000) which CAN be changed if you wish in the Public Uploads module in the admin section of your site

Members you add in this fashion WILL be allowed to upload photos/images/artwork/PDF files for use within their postings they create at your site. They can also Resize their own images, and create Sub Folders within their main folder to help them keep things organized. The member will NOT be able to navigate into any other folders or anyone elses images.

YOU as the owner/main admin of your site have FULL ACCESS to all folders/images (including any members folders/images) so that you can make certain everything is proper and members you have allowed such access are doing things according to your sites policies!

Personally myself I would suggest that you ONLY allow such upload rights to those members who are Forum Moderators, Maybe your Blog Writers, and certainly to those you have added as a News Columnist at your site.

   Free web sites and Storage Space for your important files

In todays economy is it any wonder many of the past FREE services out there are quickly going the way of the wind?  When you can find good decent FREE services on the web, you should take an interest and review what they offer to see if it is a good fit for your needs.

The once very popular Geocities is closing its doors as well as Angel hosting and many others. WebRing has taken up the slack and offers free web sites and storage space for your important files located at:  http://www.webring.com/h/webspace

We ourselves also offer FREE web sites for certain types of businesses/non profits/and community oriented sites of community value. You may wish to see about that offer as well as it is very good. Check it out at: Free and Paid for Hosting services .

This is important to do for your site from time to time. BAD links/images happen normally as your site ages and pages/images are REMOVED by yourself or your sites Members.

The Major search engines Penalize a site which contains BAD LINKS so this is important to keep your site current. There is a FREE TOOL which will help you to do just that which you can download here.

XENU.ZIP  is the zipped up file. Unzip it and run the setup program.

Depending upon how many pages/images your site has it may take several HOURS to complete a full scan! There is an option to create a SiteMap too in the program some of you will wish to utilize however; if we are your hostmaster you already have a very good site map generator which is automated and works perfectly. Use the one we setup for you please!

Also note that for Dynamically driven sites (such as our CMS) it IS NORMAL to come back with protected pages which will give you an error message simply because the XENU as well as Google or anyone else is DENIED access to those things.

Enjoy;
John
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On the other hand Embedding such content as Video/Flash, etc which you want to upload to YOUR web site takes a little more work.

First you have to Upload the file (Video/Flash, etc) to your web site. You will need to know what size the video/Flash, etc is meant to display at which you can find out by looking at the Properties for that file. Now that you have the file uploaded to your web site and know the proper size to have it display at. Here are the tags to insert into the page you wish it to display within.

We have some Coding Examples to Get you Started out with and to use as Examples.

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What you CAN do however is create a LINK to ALL your classifieds within your postings in the Forums, news, Members Articles, Blogs, and other areas within our site.  The method shown below not only works within this site, but also works equally as well at ANY WEB SITE anywhere you are allowed to post Links or other content including Twitter, Facebook, or any other site ...

The code shown in our Popup Code Window below will add a link linking up to ALL YOUR classifieds in our General, Business, Autos, Realty, Boats, Personals Classifieds, and any Job Postings you have created or WILL create in the future at this site. Very powerful way to get the word out if you use it correctly and wisely.

Open the Code Page Here

IF you follow this protocol, you will have good success with your ads here. 

Remember - We DO have a video tutorial which shows you the proper way to create Classifieds as well as adding content in the Forums and other sections of this site. To view the tutorial go to: http://florida-webmasters.com/news/page.php?118
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• A members First and or Last name or partials of their name
• A members Hobbies and or Interests (if they have entered information in that field)
• A members Personal Notes (if they have entered information into that field)
• Members who have uploaded a Photo

This tool is available ONLY to registered members, and ONLY when you are logged into this site! Although the above Fields ARE searchable by other members, Fields YOU have opted to HIDE from other members will not have that information viewable to any other member except yourself.

This tool is an ADDITIVE type of search. This simply means that IF you type a Keyword into all the fields, then all the keywords you entered WILL be searched. Keep it simple and just select one of the fields for best results!

This is a useful tool to help members FIND other members who hold similar Interests such as maybe a Fishing Buddy, Hunting Buddy, Poker or other card game Buddy, etc, etc..  Since this site is pretty geographically oriented for our membership bases, as time goes on it is pretty likely you CAN FIND someone in YOUR area with similar interests

Members may Add to their profiles by simply logging in and clicking on the Settings link near the top of this site! Members can choose to display OR HIDE most anything they include within their profiles. If you really like Fishing or Hunting you may wish to include those terms within your profile and allow other members to search for those terms. It is all up to you of course.

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John Hogan: Owner/Admin Debra Hogan: Secretary10065 Baylor Ave, Hastings, FL, 32145 Phone: 1-386-329-1962 (1-FUN-DAY-1962) Contact us Page: http://florida-webmasters.com/news/contact.php About us PDF: http://florida-webmasters.com/news/FECN1.pdf About our Web Sites PDF: http://florida-webmasters.com/news/FECN2.pdf Web Site information Form: http://florida-webmasters.com/news/FECN3.pdf

Personal Profile Information:

In the web site design and hosting services business since 1993, we are one of the very few remaining who survived the .COM boom and gloom years. We excel at creating sites for small and large business needs as well as Community oriented type sites. Enterprises which need an on line Membership style site such as Churches, Lodges, Clubs, Home owner associations, and others are our specialty.

When we build your web site, we build it with SEO (search engine optimizations and submissions) in mind from the onset!  We do this because we know that no matter how good your site looks, how well organized your content is, WITHOUT the proper SEO optimized elements, your site will not perform for you as expected..

We also design your site to perform well for you because it will be US who submits your site to the search engines which is included in our price quote at no additional cost to you.

We only design Dynamic style web sites which are the most powerful types of sites on the web today! These types of sites Save you a fortune almost immediately, and allow you to easily add/manage pages and content including online Video, FLASH, animations, artwork, and much more on the fly. You will finally have control over your sites content and can stop the insanity of paying $50.00 an hour to a web master anytime you need even the smallest of changes made at your site.

Three FREE months of hosting services on high speed professional web servers is included in our price quote to you!

 Areas of Expertise:

• Low cost professional website designs for any need
• Web hosting services which include free advertising/marketing incentives
• SEO (search engine optimizations and submissions)
• Graphic Designs including Logos, Banners, FLASH animations
• Video Creations for personal and business needs
• Desk Top Publishing (DTP) for News Letters, Brochures, and more
• Computer Training for many useful tasks from Graphic Designs, to basics of using your machine
• FREE Consultations
• CMS style site development and hosting services (Joomla, E107, WordPress, etc)
• Local Advertising via our many Community web portals: http://florida-webmasters.com/news/page.php?76

Probably best to review our http://florida-webmasters.com/news/news.php?item.68 Page for more information on PRICES and just what you get when you select our company for designing and hosting your imporant web site needs.

Use this forum thread to post an online resume (keep it short) for potential employers to use to review what it is you do. Once you have placed your resume here, go to it and copy the URL to your resume page which you can then send to potential employers to review your information.

You should review http://florida-webmasters.com/news/page.php?109 as it contains rules for such postings and such. Should you find an employer or Jobber who treats you well and actually PAYS YOU what they say they will, let us know about it and we will also be sure they too get recognition as an HONEST enterprise to deal with

Best of success in your searches
John Hogan (owner/admin)
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These are very  interesting - be sure to take the time to observe  # 7 as instructed - they are all
amazing...  BUT #7  WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
1)

Is This  Possible?? (answers at the bottom of this page)

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3)

Are the purple lines  straight or bent?



4)

Do you see gray areas in  between the squares?

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You should see a man's  face and also a word..
Hint: Try tilting your head to  the right, the world begins with 'L'

6)

If you take a look at the  following picture, let me tell you .... it is not  animated. Your eyes are making it move. To test this, stare at one spot  for a couple seconds and everything will stop moving. Or look at  the black center of each circle and it will stop moving. But move  your eyes to the next black center and the previous will move after  you take your eyes away from it Weird ?

7)

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Answers to above illusions:

1) No
3) Straight
4) No Grey
5) Liar
6) Not Moving
7) Jesus

Article by Fecn News - Hastings Florida on the web at: Florida Webmasters

Computers like an Automobile are machines. Just like a car needs OIL to keep it running, and needs periodic maintenance, so does your computer. Unlike an Automobile whereas you can Kick a tire to see if it is low, I do not suggest kicking your computer when it is misbehaving (even though I have thought about it)..

Here are a few tips YOU CAN DO yourself to help keep your puter running well longer.

Keep it Clean Folks! 

Computers have cooling fans which suck air in, blow it across components/CPU, to keep these things cooled down. Your computer is designed to operate best at xxx degrees (depends on your processor and other factors), when it was designed. After time DUST, Dirt, even Cat Hair and such things WILL be sucked in by the cooling fans and deposited on top of your mother board components, CPU, Power Supply, etc.

Once the inside of your machine becomes dirty/dusty, It WILL RUN HOTTER than it was designed to operate at. Heat KILLS computers! The solution is easy enough. CLEAN IT!

Probably once every 3 months is generally a good idea to clean it inside. Just turn OFF the computer, normally a good idea to unplug it as well, Take off the outside Cover, and blow it out using one or more of those cans of Compressed air meant for this purpose you can buy at Wall Mart, Office Depot, Staples, etc.

Be very careful when cleaning the inside of your machine of course. If you see just some light dust, just blow it off.. IF on the other hand you see gunk adhering to your cooling fans that generally means MOISTURE AND DUST which has adhered to it. Your home or office MAY be too humid in such a case and you should look into that issue as well. Hard Gunk really should be taken into a computer shop for a professional Cleaning.

If your machine is a Laptop, it is especially prone to humid dusty environments and should also be Cleaned. Many Laptops have only 1-2 fans and are ALREADY ESPECIALLY PRONE to over heating as it is. Heat is the number one reason your laptop BITES the dust (pun intended).

If you use your Laptop a lot OR you use it as a Main Computer for your work, you should invest in one of those slim Cooling Fan type stands.. What they are is simply a slim unit which goes UNDER your Laptop and they house 1-2 extra fans which blow cool air around your laptop to keep it cooler running. They just plugin to a USB port so no power supply is needed as power is supplied to the fans via the USB connection.

You can pick them up at Staples or Office Max most of the time, or in most any Computer Store. They run around $35.00 for a good one.

 Running needed systems tools

Recycle Bin:

If you are like me (or even not so like me but use your computer everyday), you will typicially create files, and Delete files from your computer pretty regularly. Where do these Deleted files go? Well- They are put into the Recycle Bin . Putting such removed files into the Recycle Bin CAN allow you the ability to put the removed file BACK where it was when you removed it.

This is good news for those of you with Kids who get on your machine unsupervised from time to time. Thing is, that these files also consume SPACE on your machine, as well as since they are really NOT GONE YET also maintain that files location in your System Registry (which also slows down your machine  tad)..

Windows has a pretty good Help System for common things you wish to learn how to do. Access it by simply hitting your F1 Key at the top of your keyboard and type in what you wish to find out more about.

Every once in while you should simply EMPTY your recycle bin to clear out all the junk which is in there consuming space since you really wanted to remove those files anyway.. When you empty your recycle bin, those files WILL BE TOTALLY GONE so just make sure you do not have anything in there that you really wished to keep before emptying it..

Defrag your hard drive:

If you are running a Windows computer, Windows comes with a built in Disk Defragmenter utility. This utility is normally in your Accessories/System Tools folder. You should run this at least every week manually, or set it to run Daily on its own. Fragmented Hard drives are the number ONE reason for hard drive Crashes and this utility helps keep it defragmented.

One step even better is to purchase the FULL VERSION windows defragmenter (very good) at  Disk Keeper .  This utility is much much better than the one which is bundled with Windows and will help keep your machine running FASTER than it may have even performed out of the box and keep it in good shape automatically for you.

Defrag your Registry: 

Your system registry is a very important file your computer loads at every boot up and needs in good shape in order for your machine to operate at full speed. Over time the Registry also gets cluttered up with junk and no longer valid shortcuts, programs, removed files, etc...

ALL this junk accumulates and of course makes your system Registry file LARGER (which also slows down your computer).. To get things back up to speed we suggest removing all the Junk Files in the registry from time to time as well. I use the Registry Booster program to perform these tasks on my windows XP and my Vista machines and it works very nicely!

Back up back up and when in doubt BACK IT UP!

Computers being the machines that they are no matter how well you perform the above, WILL DIE one day. No one can tell when it will happen, but be assured that it WILL happen in time. I have an old XP box I built from scratch some 9 years ago. It still is a real work horse and runs very well. I do all of the above things regularly, have had to replace a couple of cooling fans which were all gunked up, but it is a champ today still

What it may be tommorrow may be a different story for this 9 year old machine !

I know it WILL DIE on day, BUT; I am ready for it when it does as everything on it is backed up to one of those Portable USB drives, and also on CD as well. Now WHEN it goes the way of the wind, if it is the Hard Drive which crashes on the machine ALL I need to do is buy a new hard drive, put it in, put the Operating system back on it, and well - Just take my backed up files from the USB drive and install them on the new hard drive and I am ready to do again!

Members of our local Co-Op here in St Johns county can do Data recovery in many cases from Crashed hard drives, but this is iffy at best for any data recovery experts as it depends on how bad the drive has crashed, how your files are encrypted if they are encrypted, and other factors. Best advice here is NOT TO WAIT until such an event happens by taking pre emptive action your self and BACKING IT UP..

Those USB drives of today are CHEAP, and most include some sort of packaged Backup software. Almost all such drives are plug and play and can be setup in seconds!

Doing the above simple things CAN HELP keep your machine in good running condition for many years. Of course you should combine all the above with a good quality Anti Virus system. Many anti virus systems come with a firewall as well. IF you opt to use the included Firewall your anti virus system offers, you should turn OFF the one which comes with Windows. Go to your Control Panel to turn on or off the Microsoft Firewall.

Trying to run 2 firewalls at the same time WILL give you unexpected results, and will S L O W down your computer over the Internet as well!

Accessories Menu:

In your windows Accessories drop down into the System tools menu you can access other useful tools such as:

• System Restore  Allows you to restore your computer to a time when it was operting well. Use it in case your machine has some corrupted files or such as it MAY be able to restore it to a time when it was running properly
• Disk Cleanup  you can use this utility to further speed up your machine by clearing out old files such as Temporary files and such
• Disk Defrager  is also listed in the menu options here
• System Information Use this to find out all about your computer and make a print out as it will be handy for support calls, or when you are looking to upgrade your machine - YOU WILL Need this information with you before making a major upgrade

There are other useful tools in the Systems Tools section depending on your operating system

Auto Update?

Microsoft has a feature on windows XP and Vista which allows your computer to automatically check for available updates for your computer. I do not have auto update turned on as I prefer to have control over what I wish to update, and those things I do NOT wish to have added to my computer...

There are good reasons to turn this OFF and just check for updates manually once a week or so, but that is up to you to decide of course. To turn it on or off go to your windows Control Panel and then to the Security Center icon or the Windows Update icon and make your changes.

Main reasons I do not like setting up things which require connectivity from the Internet to run such AUTOMATICALLY is that they often run at weird times when I am trying to complete some work where I CAN NOT be interrupted by having my computer want to Restart itself once such updates are made.

I mean when I am working I typically may have 6 or more applications all open and working in all of them at the same time with open files in all of them while working on project!  Having Windows decide it is a good time for THEM to update my machine and then do an auto reboot is simply NOT an option for me.

Another good reason NOT to do the auto update thing is that certain updates from Windows MUST RUN to completion and then do a Re boot of your machine to finalize the installation of the update.. Sometimes NOT allowing such to complete CAN CRASH your machine in fact...

IF you live here in Florida, you already know that our power CAN and does go out frequently during a storm and may do so when you are asleep of course. Even though I have UPS systems (battery backup systems) in place on ALL my equipment here at my office, even so such things have a limited run time which may or may not be enough time to allow such unattended operations to run to completion...

And the final reason is that I want to be able to pick and choose just what Windows updates I wish to install or not install. As a web development person myself, I do NOT WANT Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 installed on all my machines as MUST be able to test clients sites using MIE 7 as well as MIE 8.. Auto Update turned ON WILL automatically install MIE 8 on your machine by default!

There are also other updates for common drivers your computer may have which Microsoft tells you to install by default, yet if you do so some MAY in fact crash your machine. Such things as Video Drivers, Sound card Drivers, and some others are typically those things that if the thing is working properly, WHY fix it if it isn't broken! Fixing it the Microsoft way MAY KILL IT...

Surge/UPS protection:

At the very least your electronics SHOULD have surge protection for everything. Power surges, Phone line Surges, Nic card surges, Cable TV connections, etc.... A UPS (battery backup) system IS the best thing to use with all the power outages here in FL which gives you some extra run time to SHUT things down properly when a storm is all around you.

There really is nothing out there to protect you from a direct Lightening strike but a good UPS system will generally take the brunt of such a strike rather than your expensive equipment and may well save you a fortune in repair/replacement costs.

For those of you very serious about your equipment, there are those inline Gas type Fuses available which can be installed right at the Power box, and right at the Phone Line box coming into your home/office.. Such things HAVE to be installed by a licensed trades man or the service company. These GAS fuses will blow immediately upon a high level charge (such as a close lightening strike) thereby saving your equipment on the other end.

 I myself HAVE FOUND a cheap and effective way to do something similar which you can consider... For a long time now it is required that Wet rooms (bath rooms, and other wet locations) have a GFI (Ground Fault Interrupter) outlet installed for devices which plug into the outlet in such wet locations. Dropping a Hair dryer in a sink of water and picking it up WILL KILL YOU without the GFI circuit.

The GFI circuit if installed properly will Break the circuit immediately before any harm can be done in such a circumstance. IT can also work very similarly for Near Lightening strikes for equipment plugged into the GFI and I have them installed in my home office for my electronic equipment and they DO get the job done!

 Though these are NOT as effective as an inline Gas FUSE at the source itself, they can still save your equipment from near misses so to speak.

Tidbits for Windows Vista owners:

Vista is actually one of those things Windows got right. More secure, easy to use, and more powerful than other windows versions. Now DON'T believe what it says on the outside of the box if you are upgrading to Vista as it is pretty much marketing hype.

Vista REALLY wants to run as intended on a NEWER computer which has plenty of Ram, and a nice sized video card. Don't expect too much from Vista unless your machine has at least 2 gigs of system ram, 256 meg video card, and a Dual Core 1.6 gigahertz or better processor. You see even though Windows Vista WILL RUN okay on much less systems, MOST of the applications and newer Games out there built around the Vista Platform WILL NOT.

If you install Vista you have several options for a Fresh Install onto a New Unformatted Hard Drive. IF you are updating an older machine to Vista, you probably should reformat your hard drive and start out with a Fresh Installation using your Vista CD to do the whole process. NOTE: that reformatting your hard drive WILL REMOVE ALL programs, files, data, emails, and everything else from the drive!

Vista allows you to choose to install the 32 bit version OR the 64 bit version. It also allows you to select either the Fat 32 version or the NTSF version.

First, the 64 bit version CAN of course be faster than the 32 bit version but it will depend upon the programs you are going to install as to whether or not you would see ANY difference in speed increases or not. Some programs are designed to take advantage of a 64 bit path, and some are not. MOST ARE NOT at the time of this writing.

Another advantage of installing the 64 bit version is that IF YOUR MACHINE is a fairly high end machine (such as a Dell XPS computer) it generally will be capable of using MORE than 4 gigs of system RAM.. Vista 64 bit version DOES support more than 4 gigs of Ram (as long as your computer also does the same) while Vista 32 bit version DOES NOT.

File System on Vista

The Fat 32 file system has been around for many years now. It is a good system, however the newer NTSF file system is FASTER and more reliable. Unless you have specific reasons NOT to select the NTSF file system for your intallation, you should select the NTSF file system for your computer as it will make your computer more reliable and a bit faster too.

Now Know that SOME older programs you may have may not run on an NTSF structured computer. MOST of the time you CAN install such older programs regardless by using what is called File Compatibility mode for that program (sometimes this too will NOT WORK however)..

If this is you and you REALLY want to be able to run some older programs, but do so on your new Vista machine, you should research the programs to see IF and how well they run via the many resources on the web before you make your decisions either way.

Security on Vista:

One of the MAIN security improvements in Vista is its new UAC security system. UAC simply means User Access Control. What this does is that anytime something wants to do an Install of a new program, or a file which COULD change important files on your computer you will get a Popup screen asking YOU if you approve the action.

This is GOOD NEWS for you as it adds an extra measure of security, but; it can be a PIA sometimes too!  Entering your computers Command Line mode for instance may require a small additional step or two..

FOR INSTANCE: It is a good idea from time to time to Check up on how your hard drive is doing to give you some idea of a potential FAILURE on the rising. To do that you would normally run the CHKDSK utility from a command line. Because Vista uses the UAC system here is how to proceed to get this done on your Vista machine:

• Go to your Accessories menu and find the Command Prompt link..
• Instead of just clicking on the Command Prompt link  - RIGHT MOUSE click when your mouse is over the link
• Now select the Run as Administrator option and the command prompt box will open
• Now simply type in CHKDSK to run the check disk utility (may take some time to complete)

NOTE: anytime you need help with a command line system just type in the command followed by the /? switch. for instance using our example of running the chkdsk utility IF you wish to see the various OPTIONS for this utility type in: CHKDSK /?

There is a wealth of informtion on the Internet about various Command line systems you can run on your windows machine which you may find useful for getting things done which can NOT be done any other way..

We hope this helps, and certainly feel free to contact us if you need additional help/advice at: 386-329-1962
Thanks all
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Put up business cards, Fliers, etc when and where you can. Bulletin boards are a local community type of asset for you to take advantage of where allowed. Post Offices, Laundremats, Lodges, Clubs, Churches, and small grocery stores sometimes have such a bulletin board in place... Look for these when out and about marketing your business.

Flea Markets - Trade shows:

These are also good to use. IF you do not have time to setup your own Flea Market booth, what you can do is to LOOK for someone there who has a regular booth who is willing to put up your information at their booth. You will need to make it worth their time but in the end it is business you may not have gotten any other way..

Video:

It is a good idea to have a video you can use as Handouts about what it is that you do, AND about what it is the rest of the Team does as well.

This link and image has a nice mouse over effect as you can see below.

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While the C-5 was turning over its engines, a female crewman gave the G.I.s on board the usual information regarding seat belts, emergency exits, etc. 

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Well, the short answer is to do better in the search engines pure plain and simply as that

Thing is, Adding content at this site (including images/video/etc) is easy enough to do. Since this site pretty much allows you to Copy and Paste between sites using the HTML editor section within the what you see is what you get editor at this site.

The thing is site traffic SELLS products/services on the web. Your site may be such as say: A hand made candle making enterprise (just an example folks). You may be doing okay at your site as you have optimized YOUR site to utilize keywords related to your business model and that of course is EXACTLY what you should be doing.

Because your business model is about making candles and NOT designing web sites/hosting web sites/doing SEO stuff, and other popular searched for Keywords/Phrases in the site design industry, there is little to NO CHANCE you will ever get any traffic to your candle shop via someone typing those Keywords into a Google Search!

On the other hand searchers typing in such as Florida webmaster or such DO have a very good chance of landing upon our pages here. IF YOU have a well thought out and professional AD (Classified) or Business Listing here within our pages, there is a good chance someone looking for a Florida Webmaster WILL FIND your candle shop IF they are also looking for such a thing right here.

This type of offsite marketing is often referred to as Cross Promoting and can be highly effective for you to get what is considered Incidental Traffic TO your site from someone elses NOT related to your business model at all.

Many people do such a thing at the popular Craigs List (which today is mostly a SPAM HEAVEN for promoters), and even WalMart has a Free Classifieds service you may consider doing such promotions within. There are many others as well of course.

Thing is MOST of the others are Generic in nature as they are NOT dedicated to a singular purpose at all, but rather TRY to host the WORLD which makes any searches conducted within them watered down and not really relevant to what the person searching the site is looking for at a more LOCAL level.

Buyers today do a lot of business on the web, Saavy consumers also do the same but are different in that they like to try to keep things as local as is possible (for support/returns/or in person dealings with that business). Lots of Tire Kickers are still out there

Here at FECN News and Florida webmasters we like to keep things local because local people make up the bread and butter of ANY BUSINESS no matter how small or large it is.

With the theme of Keep It Local in mind consider adding content at one of the free membership portals below:

Here is what we currently have and offer as of 12/25/2009 

The above are ALL COMMUNITY type web portals which feature News, Forums, Job listings, Web Blogs or Journals, Business Links, CLASSIFIEDS and more. Membership is FREE as long as you qualify for membership and allows you by default to post in our Forums, Chat box, Private Messenger access, and the GENERAL CLASSIFIEDS sections.

Advertising YOUR classifieds in the general sections is FREE and they get excellent results in the major search engines for you (we can prove it to you).

Now for CROSS PROMOTING your Classifieds or other, IF you qualify for any of the above you ALSO qualify to add the same to our A1a Classifieds at: http://a1a-classifieds.com  In addition you may also qualify to do the same at our: http://freejacksonvilleclassifieds.com  site as well (depends on your location of course).

Thanks and best of success with promoting your business/site
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